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03 October 2022

24/48: Sir Adrian Boult / London Philharmonic - Vaughan Williams. Job - Decca 1954

Ralph Vaughan Williams:  "Job"  (A Masque For Dancing)    
Side 1:  Introduction and Saraband of the Sons Of God - Satan's Dance of Triumph - Minuet of the Sons Of Job and their Wives - Job's Dream    
Side 2:  Job's Dance of the Three Messengers - Dance of Job's Comforters - Elihu's Dance of Youth and Beauty - Galliard of the Sons of the Morning - Epilogue

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Joseph Shadwick, solo violin - London Philharmonic Orchestra  conducted by  Sir Adrian Boult
    
Decca  LXT 2937  1955 pressing/matrices: ARL2035/6 -1B.  Recorded: 9,11-13 January 1954 - Kingsway Hall
"1.3" Declick +2.75dB Treble (max) @ 10kHz.  Later LP transfers less good than this.. 
Boult's 1946 version   (more Boult RVW there..)      Boult's 1954 RVW Symphony 4  (sounds better than 'recent competition'...)       Sleeve-note  >>>  

23 November 2019

24/48: Sir Adrian Boult / New SO - Swan Lake -&- Nutcracker + Mendelssohn, Liszt, Elgar, Mussorgsky, Sullivan - Reader's Digest 1960

Felix Mendelssohn:  "Fingal's Cave" - Overture, op.26
Franz Liszt:  "Les Preludes"
Edward Elgar:  "Pomp & Circumstance March", op.39 no.1
Modest Mussorgsky:  "Night on the Bare Mountain"
Arthur Sullivan:  "di Ballo" - Overture
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Peter Tchaikovsky:  "The Nutcracker" - Suite, op.78a  (see label)
Peter Tchaikovsky:  "Swan Lake" - Ballet suite, op.20
Act2 - Scene, Act3 - Scene, Act2 - Allegro moderato, Act1 - Waltz, Act2 - Andante, Act3 - Mazurka, Allegro giusto
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New Symphony Orchestra (of London)  conducted by  Sir Adrian Boult  
Reader's Digest  RDS 5007, RDS 5012.  Original 1961 pressings.  Decca Matrices: L70Y6513/4 -1W & L70Y6523/4 - 2W/1W. Recorded: 12-16 & 22 July 1960 - Kingsway Hall.     Labels >>>

30 June 2016

24/48: Vaughan Williams. Symphony 4 - London Philharmonic / Sir Adrian Boult - Decca 1954

Ralph Vaughan Williams:  Symphony no.4 in F minor

I: Allegro  ~  II: Andante moderato  ~  III: Scherzo -Allegro molto  ~  IV: Finale con Epilogo Fugato -Allegro molto

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London Philharmonic Orchestra  conducted by  Sir Adrian Boult

Decca  LXT 2909  1957 matrices/1959 LP: ARL1977-1DR / ARL1978 -2DR     Recorded: 2,3,5 December 1953 - Kingsway Hall
Sleeve-note / very unenthusiastic EMG review >>>   1937 Composers version >>>